twelfth day cake

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪk

Noun

twelfth day cake (plural twelfth day cakes)

1. A Twelfth cake.
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 212:

     The three young Cookes drank tea with us, and we had a Twelfth Day cake.